Jimmy Eadie
Assistant Professor Part-Time, Electronic & Elect. Engineering
Biography
Jimmy Eadie is an Audio Engineer/Producer/Educator whose work covers recording, sound design and installation. His sound installation work has been presented in many Irish galleries and internationally (National Concert Hall Dublin, IMMA Ireland, Edinburgh Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Centre, Barbican). He is a founding member of the Crash Ensemble and worked with them as their audio engineer and technical manager from 1997 to 2015, in 2015 he was made the ensemble's first Creative Partner. He has been nominated and won the Irish Times Theatre award for best sound in 2011 and 2015.
He has trained extensively with international audio companies; Meyer (USA), L'Acoustic Audio (France) and Rational Acoustics (UK). Jimmy has collaborated with artists, composers and performers from varied backgrounds and genres, earning many music award nominations and much critical acclaim. He has worked with, PanPan Theatre, The Abbey Theatre, Dead Centre Theatre, RTÉ, the National Concert Hall and many other independent companies. He has toured worldwide with Irish acts as engineer/producer and sound designer.
Research Expertise
Description
Sound Design for fixed and non fixed media; Sound art and sonic Installation; Audio engineering/production; Architectural and studio acoustics; Headphone and speaker construction; The sound world of Dramatist Samuel Beckett; Pedagogical approaches to engineering;Projects
- Title
- Cascando by Samuel Beckett
- Summary
- Beckett's radio play first broadcast in 1963, the mysterious "opener" is afraid to open, but he must open, so he opens. The text comes to life in an installation event by Pan Pan with Jimmy Eadie, Ireland's award-winning contemporary theatre company. This project is a rare opportunity to experience the play in a specially constructed environment and with unique audio binaural technologies.
- Funding Agency
- Trinity College Dublin
- Date From
- 2016
- Date To
- 2016
- Title
- Chekhov's First Play (Dead Centre)
- Summary
- Multilayered, metatheatrical and full of magpie borrowings dense yet simple extraordinarily textured both visually and aurally.' In 1921 Soviet scholars opened the box, and discovered a play. The title page was missing. The play they found has too many characters, too many themes, too much action. All in all, it's generally dismissed as unstageable. Like life. Presented on a unique headphone distribution system designed by Jimmy Eadie.
- Funding Agency
- Arts Council Ireland
- Date From
- 2015
- Date To
- 2015
- Title
- All That Fall by Samuel Beckett
- Summary
- All That Fall is a multi-layered composition of voices that can be experienced as a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle or a quasi-musical score, but that gains from being experienced in Pan Pan's uniquely atmospheric, theatrically tuned listening chamber, presented in an Octophonic Immersive Audio array designed by Jimmy Eadie.
- Funding Agency
- Arts Council Ireland
- Date From
- 2011
- Date To
- 2018
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Best in Sound Irish Times Theatre Awards
Best in Sound Irish Times Theatre Awards
Trinity Creative Challenge
Best Overall Production Edinburgh Festival
The Visual & Performing Arts Fund Trinity College
The Visual & Performing Arts Fund TCD
Arts Council of Ireland Bursary
Memberships
Audio Engineering Society
The Teaching Council of Ireland
Irish Music Rights Organisation
The Spatial Music Collective